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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Jicin
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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